Friday, May 11, 2007

My evaluation of online web albums...

Ok, now I've tested to share pictures using Google's Picasa and Yahoo's Flickr. I really would like to have a web album feature to share more pictures (than to have to upload pictures to Blogger which is slow if you share more than a few pictures).

And the winner is... ?

Well, it really depends on how you want to share pictures and what you want to do with your albums.

Flickr has a lot of features and things you can do (like add tags, make sets, make multi captions). Flickr is it's own community, a real, huge photo community and very advanced. It really is The Photo place.

Picasa is simpler, not as many features and you have to add captions picture by picture. If you use Blogger, you only have to log in once with your Google account and it's all there. Picasa will also organize the pictures you've already added to your blog (if you use Blogger).

To create a web album for the first time with a few pictures, add captions, change the order, and publish them on the blog (like my Californian Road-trip album or my Lake Tahoe in Winter-album) took with Picasa just a few minutes. Easy, simple, never had to wonder how to do it. With Flickr I had to work harder, check the help section a few times, had to update the html-code a couple of times until I got it the way I wanted. It took maybe 20 minutes.

I'll have to think about which one I'll continue to use. I'm leaning towards Picasa... Or maybe both, but for different purposes...

5 comments:

Annika said...

I think...Äsch, jag skriver på svenska...Jag tror jag väljer det du väljer :-)
Det blir lättast så.
Om picasa är lättare låter det som ett program för mig. Jag tyckte det var trevligt när du hade din bild från er utflykt längre ner. Det funkade jättebra med att klicka på den för att sen se resten. Trevligt att du kunde skriva under bilderna också. Men, man kunde inte kommentera som gäst va?
Picasa låter som vinnaren...

JaCal said...

;-) Jag tror Picasa passar dig bättre - det var verkligen jätte enkelt - speciellt när vi kör Blogger - då var man redan inloggad. Jag tror man ska kunna kommentera - jag får upp en kommentarsruta - men har faktiskt inte testat. Det måste jag göra.

Desiree said...

Kul att få läsa din utvärdering. Jag har bara provat Picasa lite smått och tycker att den verkar ganska ok. Jättefina bilder från Lake Tahoe. Riktiga vykortsbilder.

JaCal said...

Desiree - Picasa är väääldigt mycket enklare än Flickr. Men det går att göra roliga saker med Flickr om man har tålamod. Tack för komplimang om Tahoe-bilderna. De är som sagt ganska gamla och tagna genom gondola fönster. Men ger ju ändå i alla fall en idé om hur det ser ut!

Danisha McMillian said...

My vote goes to Picasa as well...like you said its easy to use and its to the point. If you have a chance check out my web album on my page www.nishaspoitofview.blogspot.com